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I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

Annie Leibovitz

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Annie Leibovitz
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 2
Fashion Photographer
Photographer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Anna-Lou Leibovitz
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Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.
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When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.
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The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.
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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
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As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.
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Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
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You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
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I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.
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If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.
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My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
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A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.
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All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
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There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
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